Goats were the firft fraall Cattle they 
had in the Countrey.he was counted no body 
that had not a Trip or Flock of Goats : t 
htc-Goat gelt at Michaelmas and turnM out 
to feed will be fat in a moneths time, 6c is as 
good meat as i weather* I was taught by 
a Barbary Negro a medicine which before I 
proceed any further I will impart unto you, 
and that wa"^ for a fwelling under the 
throat, Tikt Goats hair and clay and boil 
them in fair water to a poukis, and apply it 
very warm. 
Shetp now they have good ftore^ thcfe 
and Goats bring forth two, fometimcs three 
Lambi and Kids at a time. 
Hoggi ate here innumerable, every plan- 
ter hath a Heard, when they feed upon fhell- 
fiflh and the like, as they do that are kept 
pear the Sea and by the fifhers ftages^ they 
taftfifticand rank i but fed vi/ith white 
Oik- Acorns, or hdian-C6tn and Peafe there 
is not better Pork in the whole world : be- 
fides they (bmctimes haveJ the Meazels^ 
which is known when their hinder legs are 
ihortet than ordinary. 
Catts and Dogs are as common as in 
England^ but our Dogs in time degenerate i 
yet they have gallant Dogs both for fowl & 
wild Bcafts all over the Countrey : the Indi- 
ans ftore themfcl vc$ with them, being much 
better . 
